14th March 2021: Bishop David Oyedepo announces date for groundbreaking of the Ark Legacy Project. The Ark Project initially introduced as the Faith Theatre in 2015 with a mainbowl capacity of over 112,000 apart from several other facilities within the structure totaling about 200,000 in all, will be the largest single ultramodern purpose built Church structure ever built in Christendom. The Ark will be dedicated in 2026.
14th March 1998: The proposed date for the visit of Archbishop Benson Idahosa to Christ Embassy, Lagos (led by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome) and which did not hold as Archbishop Idahosa passed on to glory on the 12th of March, 1998.
14th March 1946: Reverend Felix Omobude is born. He is the General Superintendent of Gospel Light International Ministries a.k.a. New Covenant Gospel Church and the Immediate Past President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN).
14th March 1972: Pastor Ezekiel Atang is born. He was the Founder, God’s House of Refuge. He passed on to glory on Sunday, 20th February, 2022 while in active pastoral duties at Wordspring Gospel and Worship Centre, Onitsha, Anambra State.
14th March 2009: Professor Zacharias T. Fomum is called home by the Lord, on his way to Bambili, a small town in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. Professor Zacharias is the Apostle and Founder of Christian Missionary Fellowship International (CMFI), Cameroon.
14th March 1872: Journalist Henry Stanley and explorer-missionary David Livingstone part company, having spent the last five months in Africa together.
14th March 1558: Ferdinand I became Holy Roman Emperor, playing a key role in managing Protestant and Catholic tensions in Europe.
14th March 1937: Pope Pius XI issues a letter to Bishops (encyclical) – the Mit Brennender Sorge (with burning concern), against the Nazi government of Germany accusing the government of hostility to the Catholic Church.
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